“Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away…” (The Bible, The Book of Revelation 21:1) It is true that Karl Marx (1818-1883) was very anti-religion. Marx was ethnically Jewish. His maternal grandfather was a Dutch Rabbi, while his paternal line had […]

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” ― Abraham Lincoln There is this joke about a Christian priest. In the course of worship services, collection plates (or offertory bags) […]

“Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.” – (Bible, Philippians 3:19) Jesus had commanded, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal”, (Matthew 6:19). But the Catholic […]

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” ― Ernest Hemingway The title of this post comes from the book, ‘The Old Man and the Sea’, the last novel American author Ernest Hemingway published before he committed suicide in 1961. It received a lot of critical and commercial success. This […]

“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” ― Denis Diderot, French philosopher, art critic, and writer As soon as Apostle Paul started establishing churches, people saw an opportunity to seize power and influence those churches for their personal profit. As time went on […]

“I confess my iniquity, I am sorry for my sin” (Psalm 38:18) Confessing sins to the clergy is a practice in some Christian denominations. Disclosures made by the penitents to a priest are to remain a secret with the priest to be buried with him in the grave. Maybe, this was the case in the […]

The long poem, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), tells a rather creepy story. A ship was caught in a storm and was carried to South Pole. Everyone on the ship died of thirst and hunger leaving just one seaman, the Ancient Mariner, alive. This man was […]

“Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth The date was February 1, 2018 and time 10.30 in the night. Alone in my home, I sat watching Dr Sambit Patra and Dr Shashi Tharoor excitedly debating the Union budget […]

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V Georgekutty

I am an Accounting, Management and IT Professional, and a Gold Medalist of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI). After retiring from Government service, I worked as the Director of a Business School, which I later quit to devote my time fully for reading and writing. Few of my short Malayalam articles are published at www.keralaface.com